For some insights on where young adults stand, The Globe and Mail’s personal finance columnist Rob Carrick collaborated with polling firm Abacus Data and yconic, which provides youth market research and operates StudentAwards.com. The result was a poll in which 1,538 people aged 15 to 33 were asked earlier this year about their hopes, plans and current financial reality.

Rob chose some of the charts that surprised and sometimes worried him the most about Generation Y’s finances and outlook on life.

Browse the results and read Rob’s thoughts on the findings below each chart.

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